National identities and sociopolitical changes in Latin America / Antonio Gómez-Moriana and Mercedes F. Durán-Cogan -- The concept of identity / Jorge Larraín Ibañez -- Towards the sociogenic principle : Fanon, identity, the puzzle of conscious experience, and what it is like to be "black" / Sylvia Wynter -- Words and images : figurating and dis-figurating identity / Mercedes F. Durán-Cogan -- The emergence of a colonial ("Indian") voice : Inca Garcilaso and Guamán Poma / Antonio Gómez-Moriana -- Latin American silver and the early globalization of world trade / Dennis O. Flynn and Arturo Giraldez -- Ethnic identity and the Zapatista rebellion in Chiapas / José Alejos García -- The Indian identity, the existential anguish and the eternal return (El tiempo principia en Xibalba, by Luis de Lión) / Tatiana Bubnova -- Moors or Indians? : stereotype and the crisis of (national) identity in Ignacio Altamirano and Manuel de Jesús Galván / Isabel de Sena -- Engendering the nation, nationalizing the sacred : Guadalupismo and the cinematic (re)formation of Mexican consciousness / Elena Feder -- The rhetoric of pathology : political propaganda and national identity during the military "process" in Argentina / James R. Cisneros -- National identity and state ideology in Argentina / Victor Armony -- Caliban in Aztlan : from the emergence of Chicano discourse to the plural constitution of new solidarities / José Antonio Giménez Micó -- Between iconography and demonology : the faces at the fiesta of the señor del gran poder / Marcelo Nusenovich -- Valparaiso School of Architecture dossier -- Latin American identities and globalization / Horacio Machín and Nicholas Spadaccini